Do bilinguals have different concepts? The case of shape and material in Japanese L2 users of English
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- Professor Vivian Cook
- Arata Takahashi
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| Author(s) | | Bassetti B, Cook V, Kasai C, Sasaki M, Takahashi JA |
| Publication type | | Article |
| Journal | | International Journal of Bilingualism |
| Year | | 2006 |
| Volume | | 10 |
| Issue | | 2 |
| Pages | | 137-152 |
| ISSN (print) | | 1367-0069 |
| ISSN (electronic) | | 1756-6878 |
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| Publisher | | Sage |
| URL | | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13670069060100020201 |
| DOI | | 10.1177/13670069060100020201 |
| Notes | | An experiment investigated whether Japanese speakers’ categorisation of objects and substances as shape or material is influenced by acquiring English. The hypotheses were that for simple objects the number of shape-based categorisations would increase according to experience of English and that the preference for shape and material-based categorisations of Japanese speakers of English would differ from mono¬lingual speakers of both languages. Subjects were 18 adult Japanese users of English who had lived in English-speaking countries between 6 months and 3 years (short-stay group), and 18 who had lived in English-speaking count¬ries for 3 years or more (long-stay group). Both groups preferred material responses for simple objects and substances but not for complex objects, but the long-stay group showed more shape preference than the short-stay group and also were less different from American monolinguals. These effects of acquiring a second lang¬uage on cat¬eg¬orisation have implications for conceptual representation and methodology. |
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